Slab have some tunables like limit, batchcount, and sharedfactor can be tuned through function slabinfo_write. Commit (b7454ad3: mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c) uncorrectly change /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab, this patch fix it by revert to original mode. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab_common.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index d161b81..6a2e530 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -497,6 +497,13 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(unsigned long flags) #ifdef CONFIG_SLABINFO + +#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB +#define SLABINFO_RIGHTS (S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR) +#else +#define SLABINFO_RIGHTS S_IRUSR +#endif + void print_slabinfo_header(struct seq_file *m) { /* @@ -633,7 +640,8 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_slabinfo_operations = { static int __init slab_proc_init(void) { - proc_create("slabinfo", S_IRUSR, NULL, &proc_slabinfo_operations); + proc_create("slabinfo", SLABINFO_RIGHTS, NULL, + &proc_slabinfo_operations); return 0; } module_init(slab_proc_init); -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>